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Show THE PRESIDENT'S J-ETTER, Presidelib'RooisftVls Lbtter of Acceptance is much motQ tfyuAlQ$jfc it Is a ringing campaign document.' mfpiojttli tfp Democracy by the scuff of the neck And ghal$ it as a wolf hound shades a coyote. Ho teli Democrat lhat the only way they c,an make an-utfnjyant against the administration Sna its work is to mjitat the facts and then base their criticismlfflhIr own misstatements. Arid he proves the trtfSSch! "his worflg. On the Isthmusne, on the tariff, on the army'ancl navy, on fhfe faaiiagfment of foreign affairs, af-fairs, on Uie Phljippin qaestion, his statements ate clear and dMtlndtJj lie declares that he 'has ' everywhere obeyed tlje 'ClHtititutlon in both letter and spirit and points effet that the Constitution is .wf.Jwtfr but ji'pJgttfY? intffrtfptont; that no President Carl evadeV tivo commands, or its 1 implied commands an . cover of uncertainty I evade his olenr duty. 1 ' He says he shall keep right along as ho has been doing, always striving for the tight and for ' peace, but peace with justice. He asks no favors, I I nothing but a fair estimate of what he has done atfd Is doing, pointing in the meanwhile to his ! record as a certificate of character anil letter of i iecom"mehdaUpn for further employment. In more I than one plac'e he hurls a shaft dt Judge Parker ' I ' ! and his uncertain status, and with cutting force re- ' fers to Judge Parker's plea to be trusted, because Congress Will be so cortstibuted for three or four years thnt any change that can be wrought will not hurt very much. But the letter itself, brave i and strong and inoislvo as it is, does not equal the ' high tone in which it is written. The genuine Americanism that shines out between its Hne3 Is the chiefest charm of it. it makes a picture of the I man who wrote it, alert, strong, confident and ' brave and yet bound with a tripple chain of Duty and intent only upon compelling justice from all l j' mankind, even as he himself obeys its behests. If the American pfcopie are what he thinks they are, a people brave enough to do any rightful ' thing, but still a nafiitfn that; Idv&fe pd& with justice, jus-tice, when they have read this letter and assimilated assimi-lated it, there will not be much doubt about the ' result of the Ejection, f J We do not see JiQghe-brave men of the Smith- j em States can read chat letter and still ho.d Jhelr ! gecttdh sdllfl tdr what the Democratic party could j do for them, even If it were In power. j j |
